Flipbook
June 2018 Issue – Volume 42 • Number 6
Features
New York Jazzer Jimmy Macbride
Drum Wisdom: Jim Mola
Russ Kunkel – The Song Server
Foreigner’s Dennis Elliott
Peter Criss on Peter Criss
Rick Marotta
Heart’s Michael Derosier
What You Need to Know About Bass Drum Heads
Education
Blake Richardson on Between the Buried and Me’s Automata, Part 1
Must-Know Grooves – Disco, a Drumming Staple of the 1970s
Five-Note Phrasing – Part 2: Adding More Tension and Release
Introduction to Polyrhythms
Concepts
Do I Need a Fallback Plan?
Equipment
Turkish Cymbals Lale Kardeş Signature Series
Van Kleef – Ageless Collection 4.5×14 Snare
Keith McMillen Instruments – BopPad
Techra – XCarb Drumsticks
Dashboard Confessional’s Ben Homola
New Drum Gear From Tama, Remo, SJC Custom Drums, apulSoft, U.S. Drum Supply, Basal, and Vater!
An Editor's Overview
A Year in Transition
Departments
What’s Your Favorite 1970s Jazz or Fusion Drumming Album?
Dafnis Prieto on the Dafnis Prieto Big Band’s Back to the Sunset
Diego Arcaute with Juana Molina
Critique
Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Mike Mangini with Into the Great Divide, Legend of the Seagullmen with Danny Carey, and more
Ben Riley, Pat Torpey and Z’EV
Backbeats
2017 Sydney Vintage and Custom Drum Expo
Bubinga Behemoth
